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[OT] Save Angel!

"CAMPAIGN GOTV -- Get Out The View!"
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In political campaigns, in the days before the big election, we have a "Get
Out the Vote" push, which campaigners call "GOTV."

At the Save ANGEL campaign, we also have a big election coming up, in which
only a select group gets to vote: the Nielsen Ratings. The only problem is,
we don't know who's a Nielsen viewer-- we're not allowed to know.

So this is our GOTV -- "Get Out The View" Campaign.

For the next number of days, focus all your attentions on getting as many
people to watch the upcoming Wednesday episode of ANGEL. This is your call
to action!

Do this by hook or by crook. Use all the legal means at your disposal. Take
the following message to the nooks and crannies of the Net:

"GOTV - ANGEL Wednesday on the WB!"

Post this everywhere you are allowed. Send it in your emails. Send it to
your Lists. IM it to all your Buddies. Put it in your profile. Make it your
signature. Answer the phone with it. And most assuredly, put it on your Web
site!

But don't stop there! Take it to the streets with fliers that announce
Wednesday's show.

We've created a half-sheet flier you can download for printing at home, to
post on bulletin-boards, in coffee shops, stores, and public places. They're
300dpi for better quality and take up half a letter-sized sheet, so you can
print two to a page. There are two version, each for 8PM or 9PM showings of
ANGEL.

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Has anyone ever known anyone who had a Nielsen box? I think the Nielsen people are imaginary, like the tooth fairy.. and at least he left me a shiny new quarter.

Actually, I got selected once as a Nielsen household, but there was no set-top box. They wanted me to fill out a daily log of what I watched at what times for a month. They also sent me a $1 bill. I kept the dollar but never filled out their stupid chart. I have better things to do with my time, and I don't watch much TV anyway.

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Look Hicks, i was asking why the big support. Personally i dont like the show and wanted to know why you were so behind it. And if i want to post i will. So next time dont tell me what to do. I wasnt really trying to be a jerk, but i can be if you want to play that game.

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Losing your favorite show sucks. I was a HUGE fan of Dark Angel, and they cancelled it for some show called Firefly. So I can feel your pain.

Firefly was cancelled by Fox 16 episodes in, despite being great. Don't know if you watched it or not, but it was made by some of the same key players that made "Angel", and I recently discovered it on DVD and love what was made. If that's what kicked out Dark Angel, sorry. However, since FOX didn't even give Firefly a full season, I doubt that was the only reason.

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Look Hicks, i was asking why the big support. Personally i dont like the show and wanted to know why you were so behind it. And if i want to post i will. So next time dont tell me what to do. I wasnt really trying to be a jerk, but i can be if you want to play that game.

Coming into a thread like this just to say "that show sucks" is being a jerk/troll, whether you want to sugarcoat it or not.

And no, I'm not a big fan of the show myself. I don't think it sucks, but I don't go out of my way to watch it either.

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Yeah, Dark Angel was axed at the very last second by FOX so Firefly could take over its Friday night deathslot. I was never a fan of DA, but anytime a genre show is cancelled, I'm annoyed. Firefly was itself cancelled in short order, but like many other sci-fi shows, it was due to average ratings, not product quality. In my opinion, Sci-Fi & Fantasy television receives the short end of the stick. Good sci-fi shows are cancelled on a whim by networks, FOX in particular. Look at the shows FOX has cancelled in the past few years, shows which had and still have very devoted fan bases...

Craziness--and this is just one network's casualty list. I'm one who believes sci-fi fans should stick together and support one another's shows, because history tells us that your show could be next on the chopping block. At least DVD keeps the shows alive.

Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.

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For the record publicly, i apologize to Hicks and anyone else who was offended by my post. If you took it personally, i apologize i was merely stating my opinion on the show. But as there as been anguish over my post i thought it appropiate to apologize.

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For the record publicly, i apologize to Hicks and anyone else who was offended by my post. If you took it personally, i apologize i was merely stating my opinion on the show. But as there as been anguish over my post i thought it appropiate to apologize.

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Yeah, Dark Angel was axed at the very last second by FOX so Firefly could take over its Friday night deathslot. I was never a fan of DA, but anytime a genre show is cancelled, I'm annoyed. Firefly was itself cancelled in short order, but like many other sci-fi shows, it was due to average ratings, not product quality. In my opinion, Sci-Fi & Fantasy television receives the short end of the stick. Good sci-fi shows are cancelled on a whim by networks, FOX in particular. Look at the shows FOX has cancelled in the past few years, shows which had and still have very devoted fan bases...

Craziness--and this is just one network's casualty list. I'm one who believes sci-fi fans should stick together and support one another's shows, because history tells us that your show could be next on the chopping block. At least DVD keeps the shows alive.

I own both seasons of DA on DVD and love each episode on them. Sliders was another show I liked a lot, that was canceled by fox, its almost like the fox people take joy in cancelling sci-fi shows.

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Has anyone ever known anyone who had a Nielsen box? I think the Nielsen people are imaginary, like the tooth fairy.. and at least he left me a shiny new quarter.

My house has the Nielson box, with several miles of multi colored cords attached to every piece of electronic equipment attached to the TV (and the TV itself) in every room that has a TV and floors that look like Swiss cheese . You have to call them whenever you want to think about moving any equipment. I think we get 4 bucks a month for all the hassle...

It sounds like I'd be more popular if I watched Angel at my house...

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Has anyone ever known anyone who had a Nielsen box? I think the Nielsen people are imaginary, like the tooth fairy.. and at least he left me a shiny new quarter.

My house has the Nielson box, with several miles of multi colored cords attached to every piece of electronic equipment attached to the TV (and the TV itself) in every room that has a TV and floors that look like Swiss cheese . You have to call them whenever you want to think about moving any equipment. I think we get 4 bucks a month for all the hassle...

It sounds like I'd be more popular if I watched Angel at my house...

I would give you a huge list of stuff to watch, but all my shows are either safe or long gone, so it doesn't matter. Be prepared to be inudated with instructions come November, however.

Re: [OT] Save Angel!

Has anyone ever known anyone who had a Nielsen box? I think the Nielsen people are imaginary, like the tooth fairy.. and at least he left me a shiny new quarter.

My house has the Nielson box, with several miles of multi colored cords attached to every piece of electronic equipment attached to the TV (and the TV itself) in every room that has a TV and floors that look like Swiss cheese . You have to call them whenever you want to think about moving any equipment. I think we get 4 bucks a month for all the hassle...

It sounds like I'd be more popular if I watched Angel at my house...

I would give you a huge list of stuff to watch, but all my shows are either safe or long gone, so it doesn't matter. Be prepared to be inudated with instructions come November, however.

Whenever I am home, I end up messing up our data. Because I plug my Xbox and PS2 into the finely tuned equipment, several hours of playing a video game could register as me watching hours of terrible shows because I leave the DirecTV on. Plus I am usually online when the system trys to phone the data in...

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I don't have a Nielson Box, but a couple times they sent me a booklet to keep track of what I watched for a week. At least that way you can fudge and say you watched something you didn't. Its also helpful if you don't want to admit to watching some old sitcom on Chanel 4.

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Sign of the end .... Now they'll try to patch everything re Angel's becoming Human/role in the final apocalypse, etc into 6 weeks.

Actually, I doubt it. What I've heard is the finale is open-ended. I mean, there should obviously be a conclusion to what's happened this season, but the characters' stories aren't all gonna be wrapped into bows.